The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 10, 1917: The names of doctors serving on the new medical advisory boards for New Mexico, to assist in the selection draft work, were announced today by Carl R.C. Reid, federal disbursing officer. The appointments were made by President Wilson.

Dec. 10, 1967: FARMINGTON (AP) — A thermonuclear peace bomb is set to explode 4,250 feet underground Sunday in the first test of a concept that could double the nation’s natural gas reserves.

The device, with the power of 12.5 million quarts of nitroglycerin, is to be detonated at 11 a.m. in a secluded area of the Carson National Forest. The site is 55 miles east of Farmington and about 200 miles from where the world’s first atomic explosion occurred near Alamogordo in July 1945.

There will be little similarity between Sunday’s Project Gasbuggy test and the World War II atomic weapons program.

Dec. 10, 1992: Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking approval from the Department of Energy to more than double the size of its nuclear waste storage and disposal area — a project that would entail the excavation of centuries-old Indian ruins.

According to a 36-page LANL study describing the project, the expansion would add 71 acres to the existing 63-acre dump, located in Technical Area 54 off State Road 502 in the southeastern corner of laboratory land.